My Finished Quilts
Well I hadn't expected there to be such a long gap between my last blog post and this one, but I'm amazed at how quickly the weeks (months!) have flown by. Now I want to sit down and wish you all the best during this crisis - stay safe.
Since I last wrote I have managed to finish some quilts, although not nearly as many as I had been hoping to complete. I have been tending to go for the larger quilt tops, so that must be some of the reason. I did manage to finish the Norwegian quilt, shown above. What I did for the quilting was follow the diamond shapes with an embroidery stitch to emphasise them. Then in the larger white spaces I added feathers.
I had a lovely commission which I really enjoyed making. The lady had asked for an enormous quilt - 90" by 140", so it was more like two or three quilts. I made it in two halves using quilt as you go, so that I worked with two quilts 45" by 140" and then sewed them together after I had finished the quilting. She wanted it to match her new curtains so I used a square of her curtain fabric in the middle and then added various colours around that using a trip around the world technique. For the quilting I again used an embroidery stitch to follow the diamonds.
In my efforts to try and reduce my piles of unfinished projects I selected some blocks which I had made as quilt block patterns on the website. I put them together as a sampler quilt and that came out as a lovely colourful quilt. For the quilting I used meander quilting or large flowers in the white sections of each block, leaving the coloured sections mostly unquilted to help them to stand out.
Craft Markets
Before Christmas I was working hard at things for the craft markets. I had a very profitable time, selling plenty of quilts and Christmas table runners. Since Christmas the markets have all been cancelled so I am using the time to make a large stock of bags and cushions for such time as the craft markets are able to re open.
Something completely different
However I did take time out to make a romper suit for my youngest grand daughter. I really enjoyed making something so completely different from my norm.
Stay Safe
I hope this blog post finds you well - these are worrying times for all of us. My warmest wishes to you all and I hope you remain safe.
Best Wishes
Rose
